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\ STOCK GAR. No. 251,695. Patented Ja,11.3,1882.

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GEORGE D. BURTON, OF NEW IPSWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGN'OR OF ONE-HALF TO JOEL M. HOLDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,695, dated January 3, 1882. l l Application filed August 30, 1880. (No model.)

.To all whom fit may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, a citizen of' the United States, residing at New Ipswich, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful `Improvements in Stock- Cars,) which have not been patented to myself or to others with my consent or knowledge in any foreign country and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which willenable others to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvementin cars for carrying stock or cattle, preventing the unloading to feed and water and reloading, thus savingtime and expense and relieving the animals from their present cruel treatment in carrying them long distances without food and water, and in unnecessary unloading them for that purpose and reloading'.

Heretof'ore cattle have been carried packed tight in cars without food or water. for long distances, and when unloaded for feeding and watering, besides a serious loss of time, great difficulty is experienced and cruelty used in forcing them back again into the cars.

By my improvement each. animal can lie down separately, is properly fed and watered in the cars, has sufticient space and air, and they are carried atfless expense and Without loss of time. I attain these objects by the devices and arrangements illustrated iu the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stock-car. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal vertical section of one end, and Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line Y Y ot' Fig. 3.

A represents the car-body; B, the partitions dividing the car into compartments; C, the stanchion-bars, pivoted at their lower ends in the side of the troughs H and locked in the upper frame, c, serving to keep the animalsin place. i

I) represents the inclined raised tloors on the bottom of the car, extending to the central doorways, tending to preserve cleanliness.

In the middle of each compartment-are doorways E, on each side of the car, (with doors sliding in opposite directions,) for greater convenience in loading and unloading.

The ridge-beam F of the car-bod y istroughshaped. In this trough the water is received from the roadside Water-crane. From thence it is conductedby thel vertical pipes ffinto the .eningof the cattle in the stanchions, and afford additional ventilation. A tube entering into the ridge-beam trough, with a flanged mouthpiece to receive theroadside water-crane pipe,

may be placed in the middle of the top of the car to supply the water, instead of supplying through said top doors, it' desirable.

The drinking-troughs H maybe used as feeding-troughs, and the doorways h are for convenience in supplying hay or fodder, and for ventilation.

Instead of and vin place of the cattle-stanchions, ropes or chains may be'used, attached at oneend to the side of the car, and then looped over the horns or necks ofthe cattle and the necks of horses in succession, and fastened to the other side of the ear to keep the animalsinplace. By theuse ofthe stanchions or the looped ropes or chains each animal can lie down at pleasure without regard to the other animals.

A waste-pipe, i, leading from the drinkingtroughs carries off the surplus water.

The car may be made preferably of the length ot forty-eight feet, having three compartments, each compartment carrying at each end thereof three cattle, or six in each compartment, and in the three compartments eighteen cattle, the width of the usual size.. These measurements may be varied. v In this way the cattle may be carried with comfort to themselves, at much less expense, and withoutloss of time, and will arrive atthe end ot' their journey in as good condition as when placed in the cars.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a cattle-car, the combination, with the car-body A, of the transverse partitions B, dividing the car into compartments, the cattle- IOO stanchions arranged parallel to the partitions, suitable pipe-connections, whereby it is adapton each side thereof, the transverse feeded to serve as aWater-condnctor for supplying ro troughs extending across the car below the thefeeding-troughs, substantially as described.

partitions and the doors h on each side of the f 5 car, opposite the feed-troughs, all constructed GEO' D' BURTON' and arranged substantially as described. Witnesses:

2. In aeattle-car, a ridge-poleprovided with EUGENE F. ADAMS.,

a groove or trough on its upper sideand with HENRY O. PRESTON. 

